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Example sentences for "dote"

Lexicographically close words:
dot; dotage; dotal; dotard; dotards; doted; dotes; doth; dothe; doti
  1. Ambition was her crime; but meaner folly Dooms me to loathe, at once, and dote on falsehood, And idolize th' apostate I contemn.

  2. Can that hoary wisdom, Borne down with years, still dote upon to-morrow?

  3. To those corries of my native place will be coming in the yellow moon of brock and foumart--the beasts that dote on the autumn eves--the People of Quietness; have I not seen their lanthoms and heard their laughter in the night?

  4. To all this misery of the mind was she exposed by the severity of one who, while he pretended to dote upon her slightest glance, would not forego one act of poor revenge, though the issue was to render her miserable.

  5. And till my browner haire be mixt with gray Without a blush, Ile tread the sportive way, My Muse direct; A Poet youth may be, But age doth dote without Philosophie.

  6. It will not suffer him to dote on things, however seductive, which rob him of some nobler companionship.

  7. You are three, that Rome should dote on: Yet by the faith of men, we haue Some old Crab-trees here at home, That will not be grafted to your Rallish.

  8. I wonder if Titania be awak't; Then what it was that next came in her eye, Which she must dote on, in extremitie.

  9. No, nor I neither, but most wonderful, that she should so dote on Signior Benedicke, whom shee hath in all outward behauiours seemed euer to abhorre Bene.

  10. Not so young Sir to loue a woman for singing, nor so old to dote on her for any thing.

  11. Thank you very much, but as far as I am able, I do not use any protection against the rain; I just dote on getting wet in the rain.

  12. But you know they dote on songs and dances.

  13. Others, meanwhile, Dote with a mad idolatry; and all Who will not fall before their images, And yield them worship, they are enemies Even of their country!

  14. Ellen Did well nigh dote on Mary; 410 And she went oftener than before, And Mary loved her more and more: She managed all the dairy.

  15. Words cannot tell you how I love you, how I dote upon you, my darling.

  16. Henrietta, if you only knew how I dote upon you, you would not speak thus.

  17. As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast--but place to die-- Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish.

  18. The notion of murder was absurd: no motive was discoverable, the young couple being understood to dote on each other; and it was not unprecedented that an accidental slip of the foot should have brought these grave consequences.

  19. The Carrier had had some faint idea of adding, "dote upon you.

  20. And as I could not stay my weeping, he asked in a scornful manner, "Do papists so dote on their priests as to die of sorrow when they get their deserts?

  21. Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you, For ye waft me to summers of old When the earth teemed around me with fairy delight, And when daisies and buttercups gladdened my sight, Like treasures of silver and gold.

  22. He at least knew the worst was but for him at last to steal Sylvia from him, if he should be weak enough to dote on the young charmer, and therefore resolved to hear with patience.

  23. Ellen Did well nigh dote on Mary; And she went oftener than before, And Mary loved her more and more: She managed all the dairy.

  24. Others, meanwhile, Dote with a mad idolatry; and all Who will not fall before their images.

  25. Tender ten may dote on toys, While for twelve jam tarts have joys, Feat fourteen's in love with boys-- Not a few.

  26. He seemed to dote on every acre of it, and dwelt on its contiguity to his own domains as a circumstance which rendered the union of the estates not desirable merely, but constituted an arrangement, pointed out by the hand of nature.

  27. I know not with what losse, I should attempt her love, she is a peece So angellically moving, I should thinke Frailty excusd to dote upon her forme, And almost vertue to be wicked with her.

  28. You only prove What dust we dote on when 't is man we love.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adore; babble; baby; burble; dote; drivel; enjoin; idolize; love; rage; ramble; rant; rave; slaver; slobber; wander; worship